Doug Howard
California Angels 1972–1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Cleveland Indians 1976
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 11 | 40 | 38 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .300 | .289 | .589 | 80.5 | 81.1 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 8 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .130 | .095 | .226 | -42.7 | -33.1 | .113 | -0.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | 42 | 39 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .231 | .268 | .282 | .550 | 61.0 | 62.8 | .261 | -0.1 |
| 1975 | 17 | 29 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .207 | .207 | .310 | .517 | 28.6 | 40.5 | .236 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 39 | 99 | 90 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .211 | .237 | .256 | .493 | 30.2 | 45.5 | .221 | -0.8 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-05-13 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1976-05-02 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1975-07-24 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1974-08-23 | LAA @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1974-08-08 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.